Achievements: in August, the Protection sector reached a total of 180,849 individuals including 26,017 with general protection support, 82,644 with child protection services and 72,188 with Gender‐Bas...

This report contains highlights of protection trends and assistance/referral achievements from the ongoing operational vulnerability screening in 12 Local Government Areas (LGAs) based on available da...

With the onset of the rainy season in Nigeria’s north-eastern State of Borno, varying degrees of damages are expected to infrastructures (self-made and constructed) in camps and camp-like settings, as...

Achievements: in August, the Protection sector reached a total of 180,849 individuals including 26,017 with general protection support, 82,644 with child protection services and 72,188 with Gender‐Bas...

The Protection sector collectively reached 1,637,661 (Protection: 512,252, CP: 666,499, GBV: 458,910) individuals between January and July 2018. This represents 61 per cent of the 2.7 million individu...

Achievements: The protection sector collectively reached 1,392,933 (Protection: 445,523, CP:585,920, GBV: 361,490) individuals between January and June 2018. This amounts to 52% of the 2.7 million ind...

Achievements: in August, the Protection sector reached a total of 180,849 individuals including 26,017 with general protection support, 82,644 with child protection services and 72,188 with Gender‐Bas...

From January through November, the Protection Sector has reached 2.5 million persons with protection interventions, including 186,320 provided with protection-based material assistance such as solar l...

Achievements: The protection sector collectively reached 1,392,933 (Protection: 445,523, CP:585,920, GBV: 361,490) individuals between January and June 2018. This amounts to 52% of the 2.7 million ind...

This report contains highlights of protection trends and assistance/referral achievements from the ongoing operational vulnerability screening in 12 Local Government Areas (LGAs) based on available da...

UNHCR in collaboration with Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), and National Emergency Management Agency NEMA carry out registration at the border control poin...

The Protection sector collectively reached 1,637,661 (Protection: 512,252, CP: 666,499, GBV: 458,910) individuals between January and July 2018. This represents 61 per cent of the 2.7 million individu...

Achievements: in August, the Protection sector reached a total of 180,849 individuals including 26,017 with general protection support, 82,644 with child protection services and 72,188 with Gender‐Bas...

The Protection Sector Working Group (PSWG) recommended that a set of best practices on access to justice be developed to guide protection actors intervening in the North East.1 The following guideline...

There has been a high prevalence of single females heading their households within areas in the North East most affected by the conflict. The UNHCR Vulnerability Screening (December 2017) found that 6...

The general security situation in North-East Nigeria remains fluid and unpredictable. Although many areas previously occupied by Boko Haram have been recaptured, the group remains a threat to civilian...

From January through November, the Protection Sector has reached 2.5 million persons with protection interventions, including 186,320 provided with protection-based material assistance such as solar l...

The insurgency continues in NE Nigeria with a change in tactics that are seeing an increase in the BH using young girls as suicide bombers. It is reported that 145 girls have been used as suicide bomb...

The general security situation in North-East Nigeria remains fluid and unpredictable. Although many areas previously occupied by Boko Haram have been recaptured, the group remains a threat to civilian...

The number of individuals who returned to Nigeria from Cameroon has slightly increased by 226 following the completion of the registration process by the National Immigration Service supported by UNHC...

About 150,000 people are facing Famine in Nigeria and South Sudan. Another 9 million face Emergency food security outcomes (IPC 4) in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen, and could face Famine (I...

TheSite Trackeris an analysis tool developed to identify gaps in service delivery and assistance in IDP camps. This tool only covers camps where IOM CCCM Site Facilitators are deployed to support in c...

The first Lake Chad Basin Governors’ Forum organized by UNDP with financial support from Germany, Sweden, and Norway was held from 8-9 May in Maiduguri, Borno State. Government representatives from Ca...

IOM works with national and local authorities in order to gain better understanding of population movements throughout West and Central Africa. Flow Monitoring Points (FMPs) allow IOM to quantify and ...

The Protection sector collectively reached 1,637,661 (Protection: 512,252, CP: 666,499, GBV: 458,910) individuals between January and July 2018. This represents 61 per cent of the 2.7 million individu...

Abuja, 11 August 2017 – The Humanitarian Coordinator for Nigeria, Edward Kallon, has expressed grave concern over the unauthorized search of a United Nations base for humanitarian workers in Maiduguri...

The number of cases of Hepatitis E has doubled in Ngala and Damasak; and it has slightly increased in Monguno compared to the previous epidemiological reporting weeks. A total number of 42 blood sampl...

With the onset of the raining season in Borno State, varying degrees of damages are expected to infrastructures (self-made and constructed) in camps and camp-like settings, as the storms are more ofte...

This was the substance of a joint debriefing held in Abuja by the Government of Nigeria and UNHCR on 31 May, 2017, attended by the diplomatic/donor community, humanitarian actors and a cross section o...

This document serves as an operational mapping tool of protection monitoring activities in Borno and Yobe states, as of June 2018.* It provides a comprehensive overview of the protection monitoring si...

Northern Nigeria’s conflict with Boko Haram spilled over to the Lake Chad Basin region, where Nigerian refugees are hosted since 2014, causing large scale forced displacement and an unprecedented humanitarian emergency in Cameroon, Chad and Niger.

According to UNHCR estimates, statelessness affects millions of people worldwide, at least 700,000 of which are in West Africa. There are many factors contributing to the risk of statelessness in the region, which suggest that the population at risk is very large.

Mixed movements refer to complex population flows: people using the same routes and modes of transportation to travel, but moving for different reasons, and with different needs. In these flows, refugees move alongside people fleeing financial hardship. West Africa is a place of complex mixed movements, inside the region or from the region to other parts of the world, such as Europe through the Central Mediterranean route.

Today, there are 25,000 Ivorian refugees hosted in Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Togo. Since 2011, UNHCR has facilitated the voluntary return in safety and dignity of over 65,000 Ivorian refugees and and continues to do so.